Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed

[Gilles Espinasse]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pádraig Brady" <address@hidden>
To: "Jim Meyering" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>; "Andreas Schwab" <address@hidden>; "Eric
Blake" <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed


> Jim Meyering wrote:
> >
> >>From ce9ff50623ad010fb52c3a4bf18a232eb875137c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
> > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:13:22 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] tests: avoid spurious failures due to insecure
directory in PATH

> Hmm, as we're adding /abs/path/to/coreutils/src to the start
> of the $PATH, then I'm guessing that this issue is caused
> by running from /tmp which is often o+w
> Maybe we need to just remove the coreutils/src from
> the $PATH for these tests?
>
> cheers,
> Pádraig.
>
That was the explanation.
I checked before the PATH before running make check and not inside pwd-long
/path/to/coreutils/src is added at the beginning of PATH
And /usr/src was writable by everyone.
I fixed that. Then fail-eperm no more fail (did not find a file not owned by
the user, so skip).
But pwd-long still fail as coreutils-8.1 and src directories are writable by
everyone.
[chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ tar xf cache/coreutils-8.1.tar.gz
[chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ ls -ld coreutils-8.1/src
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 18:55 coreutils-8.1/src
[chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ ls -ld coreutils-8.1 coreutils-8.1/src
drwxrwxrwx 13 root root 4096 Nov 18 18:55 coreutils-8.1
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root 4096 Nov 18 18:55 coreutils-8.1/src

Gilles